Zuo Zhengming followed closely behind Qi Lin, and he didn't even dare to breathe more, because he found that Qi Lin seemed to have changed as a person in the past few days, which may not be seen by others, but with his understanding of Qi Lin, he naturally knew that it was abnormal.

So what is there on his mind that can make Lord Qi, who has always been iron-faced and cold-faced, so restless? I'm afraid there won't be anything else besides Yue Fei, right?

Zuo Zhengming thought in his heart, he didn't know that Qi Lin, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, and he almost hit it directly for a while.

He looked at Qi Lin in surprise, but he didn't dare to show any expression on his face, he was confident that his ability to pretend to be confused all along was not bad.

Qi Lin's face was still as pale as iron, he looked at Zuo Zhengming for a long time, which made Zuo Zhengming feel uneasy, although he was sleek and sophisticated, but Qi Lin was his top boss after all, and he had always been unable to rub sand in his eyes, how many times he had run over the years The door of the most powerful person in the court is probably not something he doesn't know, but he has not said it, probably because he is not just "imaginary".

But at this moment, I don't know why, facing Qi Lin's gaze made him feel a little panicked.

"My lord, what do you have to command?"

Qi Lin smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "What else can I tell you, you haven't been running to Qin Hui's mansion in the past few days, right?"

Zuo Zhengming's heart trembled, and he was really thought of by himself, it seems that "this adult" has begun to mind his own things.

His legs were weak, and he almost knelt directly in front of Qi Lin, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, you know me...... I am a cloth cloth, I have been an official in the court for many years, and I have never had any support behind me, in the city of Lin'an, I am not even as good as the dog in front of some compounds, for the sake of the family, and in order to save this little life, I can only grovel......"

Qi Lin stretched out his hand to hold him very quickly, nodded silently, and said after a long time: "It has not been easy for a child of the Han family to be an official since ancient times, so why shouldn't I be like this...... Let's get up and talk about it!"

His resolute gaze just now softened, and said: "What I said in front of the door tonight, you can go to Qin Xiangmen's door early tomorrow morning and tell the truth, maybe you can get a better future for your fame!"

Zuo Zhengming was shocked, this time it was too unexpected for him, and said in a trembling voice: "Why did the adults say this, I ...... Although I, Zuo Zhengming, am not talented, I don't think I'm such a villain!"

Qi Lin smiled bitterly.

"I already knew that what happened in this Dali Temple was always hidden from your eyes, although those two teenagers deliberately changed their costumes, but how could they escape the eyes of you and me, who have seen many homicides, I deliberately reminded me tonight, I really don't want Yue Fei's case to be more implicated, so that the final damage is not the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, if one day the Jin people come to invade the realm again, how should we find this spear?"

He suddenly put his hands behind his back and stood like an old desolate tree.

He said in a hoarse voice: "These things were originally done by me, if you don't report to the Prime Minister after tomorrow, you can treat it as ignorance, so as not to implicate yourself......"

Zuo Zhengming listened to his words, and couldn't help but shake violently in his heart, and a bold idea in his heart immediately lingered.

"Could it be that my lord, he actually wants to let Yue Fei go without permission tonight?"

"In that case, I'm afraid not to mention himself and his family, I'm afraid that the whole Dali Temple will never be able to raise their heads again......"

He has been following Qi Lin for several years, and the court officialdom has been treacherous over the years, as unpredictable as the sky in June, but Qi Lin has been in charge of Dali Temple for so long with his straight name, outsiders know that he has the title of "Man in the Iron Mask", but in fact, he knows that Qi Lin has long been well versed in the way of officialdom, but his heart is as lofty as the sun and the moon

However, since Yue Fei was imprisoned, his state of mind has suddenly changed, perhaps he has never changed after many years of immersion in officialdom.

"Tonight I will go to prison alone and have a long talk with Yue Fei, there is a place where you have been governed for a long time, you should know what to do, I will not embarrass you or any of my brothers, after tonight, I will tell the court that everything is done by me alone......"

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There is never a shortage of prisoners in the prison of Dali Temple, once the prisoners are tortured, the skin and flesh of the whole body will not have the shape of a person, and the prison is dark and damp, some of them are not bandaged in time after being sent back, the wounds will rot and sores, and maggots will even be born in places where there is no daylight.

Ordinary people don't want to say that they are locked up in this kind of place, that is, walking around outside the prison and hearing the roars of those prisoners, it is no longer something that normal people can make, but more like a kind of animal instinct, of course, this kind of cry will only come out of people who have just come in, and it will not be so fierce and miserable after a long time.

It is said that in the second half of the night, it is filled with all kinds of small noises, like thousands of rats crawling, and this sound is even more terrifying than the terrible screams.

But tonight the whole cell was silent, and there seemed to be no sound except breathing.

At this time, the sound of footsteps was heard.

Qi Lin held a torch in his hand, and the firelight illuminated his face a lot redder.

As he walked inside, he looked at the number of each cell, and there were many people who came and went, some of whom came in with hideous faces like the heroes of the world, but soon they would become another person, a person who was extremely cowardly from the heart to the outside, and it was the horror here that stripped him of his strong shell and awakened the fragility of his heart.

But Qi Lin has always firmly believed that he will try his best to uphold justice in the past cases from his hands, of course, he can only "try his best".

He suddenly thought, I wonder what it would be like if he lived here one day.

Maybe even these prisoners are not as good as these, even if they are iron bones, how can they withstand all kinds of torture?

But there is one person who is different, he is like a high mountain, with a strong back and heavy shoulders, even in the face of the most severe torture in Dali Temple, he has not changed a bit.

His eyes were fixed on the innermost cell, and the firelight made his usually blue face seem to change suddenly.

There was a man sitting there, the white prison clothes he was wearing were long gone, and you can imagine how he had been devastated, but he still sat in it calmly as before, without a hissing roar, and without turning into a rat that sank in the night.

Qi Lin stuck the torch on the wall, then took out a bunch of keys from his waist, and he walked in without thinking.

"My time should be almost up, right?" Yue Fei's voice was extremely weak, but he still tried to stay calm.

Qi Lin looked at Yue Fei's back, he didn't know how many times the clothes had been soaked in blood, his long hair was unkempt, where else could he see that it was the veteran who had galloped on the battlefield?

"General Yue, Great Song ...... I'm sorry you ......."

He couldn't see Yue Fei's face, but he could hear Yue Fei smiling reluctantly.

"No one is right or wrong......"

"It seems that they still haven't completely given up, but I didn't expect it to be you this time......"

Qi Lin was a little puzzled, although he knew that since Yue Fei was imprisoned, people had come several times, some people visited the prison, some people investigated the case, but it was conceivable that they were not just here for Yue Fei, even Qin Hui, who was the prime minister, and Gonggong Sa, the former head of the imperial palace, had also come by order.

Could it be that they have any other purpose that they can't achieve?

"General Yue, Qi Lin doesn't understand what you mean by this, but you have been tortured these days, but you have not done anything

Now Qin Xiang has teamed up with the military department to set up all kinds of schemes, not only luring the Yue family army to come to rescue you, to trap 100,000 Yue family troops in a disloyal place, but also to set up a heavy ambush around this Dali Temple, no matter who comes to the net, they will definitely enter the net......"

He smiled with some disdain.

"Today, Qi Lin just wants to ask, the court is so unkind to the general, why do you insist on doing so?"

Yue Fei's body trembled inadvertently when he heard his words so moving, but he didn't answer Qi Lin's words, but slowly stretched out a bloodstained hand to his shoulder, and then used all his strength to pull the blood-stained prison clothes on his body.

The clothes moved slightly, and the smell of blood wafted in, and the clothes at the scars of different shades had long been mixed with flesh and blood, and at this moment he forcibly pulled up the clothes, and also drove the scarred skin to leave the body little by little, but he didn't seem to feel the pain for a long time.

Yue Fei slowly pulled the clothes off his body, revealing his scarred back.

Qi Lin saw countless scars on it, there were knife wounds, arrow wounds, and some couldn't even tell what the wounds were, they were so dense that they could hardly find a few intact pieces of skin.

However, when he looked at these scars, Qi Lin, who had already witnessed too many tragic situations and was not shocked, couldn't help but be moved.

I saw the four big characters clearly visible on Yue Fei's back come into my eyes.

"Serve the country with loyalty"

These four words are connected with flesh and blood, as if they go deep into the bone marrow, and the handwriting is like a series of mountains and rivers between the flashes, rushing straight into the eyes, majestic, majestic, just like the thunderous war drums on the battlefield, and like a solid barrier cast by thousands of troops.

Qi Lin sighed.

"Serve the country with loyalty...... Serve the country with loyalty......"

"Who would have thought that there would be a thousand-year-old unjust case in this gloomy cell!"

He suddenly fell to his knees, took off his outer robe, covered Yue Fei's body, and said, "General Yue, if today is the time to employ people, you shouldn't die in prison in vain, I will send you out of the city tonight......"

He was just about to reach out to help Yue Fei, but he didn't know that Yue Fei's body was extremely heavy, and no matter how hard he tried, it didn't work at all.

Yue Fei slowly took off his hand, he turned his face slightly, Qi Lin finally saw his appearance at this moment, his bronzed face was like a knife and pen, and there seemed to be a thousand peaks between his eyebrows, but at this moment, there was not much brilliance in his eyes.

Qi Lin's heart suddenly wanted to collapse, a person like Yue Fei should be the most dazzling person in the world, but even his eyes lost their brilliance, should this be his sorrow, or whose sorrow?

"Lord Qi......"

"I can't leave anymore, from the moment I walked into this room, I was doomed to be unable to leave, probably because Da Song and His Majesty no longer need me......"

"When I was going to go out with the army, my mother stabbed these four words for me, so that I was loyal to the king, loyal to Sheji, and Li Min, and now Yue Fei is loyal, and only the last seven-foot body is returned to my mother......"

"I hope that there will be no more wars in the world from now on, and I hope that as Your Majesty wishes, my people of the Great Song Dynasty can have a rare peace ......"

"As for what some people want to get from Yue Fei, I'm afraid they will eventually be buried in the loess with Yue Fei and become a secret forever......"

He laughed, and the laughter was very desolate.

"If there is a way to win a hundred battles in this world, it is by no means beyond the reach of any heirloom art of war or artifact, and the world's busyness is just vain...... What's more, if there is really any strange realm that is different from this world, I would like to see it too!"

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